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Originally posted by Endymon32
Can you imagine the uproar if a leftie kid was strongarmed by teachers? Man it would be in all the headlines.
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Dude, this is in the headlines. Granted, it's in Reverend Moon's headlines, but it's there nonetheless.
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Originally posted by Strange Famous
the NRA is bad because they support the ownership of guns, which are lethal weapons and should not be allowed to be possessed by the general population. To ban citizens from possessing guns is a good thing, the NRA oppose this, and they are a bad thing.
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No no no no no no no! Man, this makes it so hard for people to be liberal when you say things like that. Look, we have this constitution thing. It gives citizens the right to keep and bear arms (in a well ordered militia, but let's leave that aside. It's not crucial to the point). This right has exactly the same weight as the right to free speech or the right to be free from unreasonable search and seizure. If you don't like the right, then work to repeal the second ammendment, but don't tell me the NRA is bad for defending the second ammendment.
Now, that said, the NRA is bad for <i>how</i> they defend the second ammendment. The first ammendment can be suspended in cases of national security and in cases that cause clear and present danger to life, health, and/or property. Why is it that similar limitations do not apply to the second ammendment? The NRA, that's why. Guns are dangerous, but they are allowed. Guns that fire a poorly aimed spray of bullets that might hit anything are an unacceptable danger to life and limb and probably ought to be banned (or severly restricted). Mankilling weapons, like cheap handguns, probably ought to be banned in high population density areas for similar reasons. Further, the second ammendment says nothing about licensing guns. Effective enforcement of gun licensing laws would go a long way to solving the problems we have wth firearms. Now if only the NRA didn't stand in the way of effective enforcement of those laws, we might be able to get somewhere.